Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-01-27
IN GENERAL.


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Michael Dayitt sailed from New York
for Liverpool in the steamship Alaska
Tuesday.
The house Of H. L. Ross at Fern City,
Pa, was burned Monday afternoon, and
bis four children persisted In 1t.
The total number OF immigrants who
arrived in the United States last year was
$50, 1855, against 326, ISL in 1885.
The great breaker Of the Parrish Coal
Company at Plymouth, Pa, was de-
stroyed BY fire last night. The loss ID
heavy.
The schooner IIettie Wells, from New
York for Calais, Me-, with 1000 bushels
Of corn, has been wrecked on Mosquito
Island. Her crew was saved.
| An epidemio Of malarial fever aud
measles il repoxted ut Tarentum, Pa.
More than 100 serious cases are reported,
with seven deaths since Saturday.
Maggie Coe, a well-connected 16-year-
old qirl of Nelsonville, o., Monday shot
herself because of disappointment In
love, and it is thought she will die.
The governor Of Ohio has issued pro-
clamation extending the quarantine
against cattleshipped from Cook county,
illinois, to tbs whole of the latter state.
The Winsor Line steamer Aries, plying
between Philadelphia aud Fall River, ran
ashore Monday during fog OF Point
Pleasant, N j. The crew were landed
safely in the breeches buoy.
: The circulation of the standard silver
dollar is steadily decreasing Theamoun'
! outstanding Tuesday $5S, 634 ,237-ii
. over 80 ,0OO. 900 less than the amount out
standing ON the LIST instant.
The total value Of the exports from th'
! United States during 1886 was S7l3, 269,
; 666, against $6Ss, 249, 1913 in 1885. Tn
7; total value of our imports last year wa
/. 1868, 417,2 tO, against 1851, s6s,e75 tn
Q preceding year.
Sadie Hayes, colored, who shot ant
a killed Police Sergeant jerks at st. Loui
4 in October, 1883, was Monday Allowe,
/ TO plead guilty to murder in the secon
IL degree, and was sentenced to 80 years i
v the penitentlary.
. A frame dwelling in Mount Morris
q near Buffalo, was burned early Tuesda
X morning and the body of Henry Higgini
0 aged IS years, was found in the ruins
=. Higgins had recently received some per
., sion money, and. foul play is suspected
Gen. Gustavus Adolphus Scroggs die
III Monday in Buffalo, aged So years. i
n was born in Pennsylvania, but emigrate
to Buffalo in 1870. During the war
U, was provost marshal at Buffalo, and, fl
=, 81 time, commanded a regiment of colore
troops.
There was quite jubilation in Glouoe
ter, Mass, on Monday night, over q
massage of the Fisheries Retaliation bill
Dr. the United States Senate. A large GROW
ar gathered on the street in front of q
Federal buildings, cheering and makir
lse other dem nstrations.
In San Francisco ON Monday night
IN dynamite cartridge exploded on the tra'
ed between the car and dummy Of train
'rt. the Geary street railroad, breaking
10 piece of iron six inches long out of I
! ln car wheel. A number of passengers we
nj on the dummy and inside the car at I
time Of the explosion, but none Of the
$40 were injured.
10 ~ The schooner A.R. Crittenden of Gle
800 cester, Massachusetts,. was recently seiz
- al Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, for Vi
40 lation of the Canadian laws, and her ca
OF tain was fined $500, which was paid und
INN protest. Monday her owners receiy
ta, from the customs authorities at 0ttawI
Nh document discharging the seizure on pl
ment Of line Of S25 and all expenses.
ate At Albany, Monday, Mrs. Eliza Mest
alias Lynn, pleaded guilty to an indi
ment charging her with unlawfully dru
ing pension as a widow after she b
remarked, and she was sentenced TO tn
nIf years at hard labor in the Albany pc
0, Tertiary. Two witnesses, who signed
Nil. vouchers as such, also pleaded gull
in aud were each sentenced TO 10 mon
in. imprisonment.
pin The attorney general has given
is opinion to the treasury department t
is saved mahogany boards are subject
y of duty at the rate of 80 1000 feet
sev. sawed timber. This is in conflict "
ton the practice of the treasury departing
amt under which the boards have been ella
ON fed as manufactures of mahogany, d
and able at the rate of 30 per cent ad valor'
in AT Belgidere, New Jersey, Mon
ette morning, Chief Justice Beaslsy senten
James j. Titus 10 be hanged on Thursd
lant April l4tn, between the hours of 10 a.
A. and p n. Titus made speech ass
S1h ing his innocence and protesting aga
aish the notirn of the jury. The chief jus
"itn then rN8'orted his conviction of III
nos, plltlt-.sA-.aaa-. ease will ha CARRIED To
IN court Of errors aud appeals on II
lRh' exceptions and thence to the court
zee pardons in case of an adverse deoisIo
~ The internal revenue collections du
III, the first six months of the orrrent q
NE, year were $57 ,503, sos, being deer
,hat Of s. ,05i $40 as compared with the co
Sina spending period of the previous q
asa55 year. There WAS decrease of $3, 222
,n;na IN the collections on spirits, an increas
t;tio 1858 Ssl on tobacco, an increase
a,oa. IL, ll2 46l on fermented liquors and
aina increase of $7l ,052 from miscellan,
,ame sources. The total collections from q
onnt margarine since November LIST amour
M to S29S, l09.
t the About 200 cases Of giant powder
title transit on the Missouri Pacific railr
ed to exploded half mile west of Fort s
learn Kansas, Tuesday morning. The
rich containing the powder was blown
lated atoms, and Is other freight cars out q
mt to in the train were completely demolis
apy Scott Hooker, a brakeman was xii
from The neighboring city was shaken "a i
,ught an earthquake, and 100000 WORT
by glass was smashed in the central
said western sections. II is said that win
over glass was broken at Nevada, 25 Il
crest. distant.